Here we have an old cabinet, with an old waterpump, an old air pump, an old surge protector, an old Vicks vaporizer, a can of beer and a trashcan with a beat up disposable cooler around it. We've also made our own net pot out of whatever the hell the thing we made it out of is called. What that is, We don't know or care, as long as it works. Oh, and some tin foil. Our light right now is the beautiful custom made hemp FL fixture that you see pictured... but we plan on adding supplemental LEDs and/or CF lights. The main thing we love about the setup is the cost: Zip. That's right, we either had the stuff laying around, or stole it from decrepit old people. (Jk(jk))
The trashcan is our root reservoir. The reason it's sitting in the cooler is to shield it from sudden temp changes (The whole thing's just sitting on the ground in our basement). We've also routed out a hole in the back side for the lamp ballast to fit into, we're hoping this will keep water temps up.
The beer gives us Co2, the Vicks vaporizer provides the humidity (The res is full of nute water, so we'll see how that goes), the tubes provide adequate lighting... Especially when reflected through cabinet with the tin foil (And scotch tape).
Right now we're just running straight tap water in the can, as we figure the peat pellet has nutrition to last little Shakira a couple weeks, and if we wait we probably won't burn her.
Any-who, we've already done some lighting experiments, and are pretty convinced that Supplemental LEDs will do wonders for our plant. We had a single, 1 watt LED trained on the seedling during development, as well as three t5 tubes and a 30w spot light. The seedling grew a somewhat sharp kink towards the LED, and then just kind of leaned it's whole stem... So we were thinking of trying some ZFT, or Zero Force Training as we've coined it... where we'll just make the sapling chase a high wattage led around into whatever shape we please. So obviously more on that to come.
As pictured, the plant sits in a jiffy peat pellet, and is about 48 hours old... This is bagseed from some middle of the road bud, but we're going to make something nice out of it, we're sure. She's pretty big for her age already.
Eventually, we will branch out and use the top shelf for cloning alone, with some CFLs for the little girlies to come, and we're probably going to add a scrog to the mother plant in the bottom, but for now this is it.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask... and If you see anything that we're doing stupid, please just say something. We'd rather not hear about our choice to grow under florescent lights, as we're familiar with the different schools of thought... but anything else is fair game. We've researched for a long fucking time, and are over ready to put some of what we know to good use
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The trashcan is our root reservoir. The reason it's sitting in the cooler is to shield it from sudden temp changes (The whole thing's just sitting on the ground in our basement). We've also routed out a hole in the back side for the lamp ballast to fit into, we're hoping this will keep water temps up.
The beer gives us Co2, the Vicks vaporizer provides the humidity (The res is full of nute water, so we'll see how that goes), the tubes provide adequate lighting... Especially when reflected through cabinet with the tin foil (And scotch tape).
Right now we're just running straight tap water in the can, as we figure the peat pellet has nutrition to last little Shakira a couple weeks, and if we wait we probably won't burn her.
Any-who, we've already done some lighting experiments, and are pretty convinced that Supplemental LEDs will do wonders for our plant. We had a single, 1 watt LED trained on the seedling during development, as well as three t5 tubes and a 30w spot light. The seedling grew a somewhat sharp kink towards the LED, and then just kind of leaned it's whole stem... So we were thinking of trying some ZFT, or Zero Force Training as we've coined it... where we'll just make the sapling chase a high wattage led around into whatever shape we please. So obviously more on that to come.
As pictured, the plant sits in a jiffy peat pellet, and is about 48 hours old... This is bagseed from some middle of the road bud, but we're going to make something nice out of it, we're sure. She's pretty big for her age already.
Eventually, we will branch out and use the top shelf for cloning alone, with some CFLs for the little girlies to come, and we're probably going to add a scrog to the mother plant in the bottom, but for now this is it.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask... and If you see anything that we're doing stupid, please just say something. We'd rather not hear about our choice to grow under florescent lights, as we're familiar with the different schools of thought... but anything else is fair game. We've researched for a long fucking time, and are over ready to put some of what we know to good use
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The thing I can't get over, though... is that it's basically what we have here, just scaled down.
